But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one’s past for such ‘turning points’, one is apt to start seeing them everywhere.
KAZUO ISHIGUROI think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they’d once belonged to the sea.
More Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
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You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?
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I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.
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You’re always in a rush, or else you’re too exhausted to have a proper conversation. Soon enough, the long hours, the traveling, the broken sleep have all crept into your being and become part of you, so everyone can see it, in your posture, your gaze, the way you move and talk.
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As a writer, I’m more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
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It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you’ve made, and there’s this panic because you don’t know yet the scale of disaster you’ve left yourself open to.
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What I’m not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we’ve lived through, or feel we’ve had enough time.
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We all live inside bodies that will deteriorate. But when you look at human beings, they’re capable of very decent things: love, loyalty. When time is running out, they don’t care about possessions or status. They want to put things right if they’ve done wrong.
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It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.
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Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways.
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I want my words to survive translation.
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The problem, as I see it, is that you’ve been told and not told. You’ve been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.
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Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.
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I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they’d once belonged to the sea.
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I think there is a huge difference between writers who have very big sales, and writers who have small sales. Even writers with very high reputations, even Nobel prize winners, often sell in very low figures.
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She always wanted to believe in things.
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